Tea Party Candidate Says It's OK To Stone Gays To Death

[Viking]

Viking has a hard time with non-literal interpretations of holy books Spicey.

Yes, if you are going to make it up anyways why have the book in the first place.

[Berkut]

You people are like Syrian Islamists, who behead other Syrian Islamists for not beheading enough non-Islamists.

Blue Dogs.

[Ideologue]

I've always said I admire the fuck out of the TP's party discipline.  In the abstract, divorced from their actual political views, it's a beautiful thing to behold.

[citizen k]

I've always said I admire the fuck out of the TP's party discipline.  In the abstract, divorced from their actual political views, it's a beautiful thing to behold.

Trying to out fanaticize each other is easy.

[Jacob]

I've always said I admire the fuck out of the TP's party discipline.  In the abstract, divorced from their actual political views, it's a beautiful thing to behold.

Ide, I'm making the prediction now - you are going to end up a hard-core rightwinger one day. You won't be a Fascist or a neo-Con; it will be called something else. But one day, you'll be denouncing the likes of derspiess and Hansmeister for being insufficiently conservative.

[Iormlund]

I'm confused. How can someone be 'largely libertarian' and advocate curtailing personal freedoms in such a way? Does libertarian mean something else in Oklahoma?

[garbon]

I'm confused. How can someone be 'largely libertarian' and advocate curtailing personal freedoms in such a way? Does libertarian mean something else in Oklahoma?

You mostly agree with libertarian positions but make exceptions for egregious examples of sin?

[Ideologue]

Ide, I'm making the prediction now - you are going to end up a hard-core rightwinger one day. You won't be a Fascist or a neo-Con; it will be called something else. But one day, you'll be denouncing the likes of derspiess and Hansmeister for being insufficiently conservative.

And I think you'd go far in a leftist tea party.  I get more shit from you about not being the exact person you want me to be, with views exactly the same as yours, than I do from anybody.

That said, I do expect you're joking here, since I can't imagine many circumstances where my very foundational beliefs would be turned into their opposites, and I'd become homophobic, misogynist, racist, and rabidly capitalist, those being the four impulses that drive modern rightism.

[Ideologue]

I'm confused. How can someone be 'largely libertarian' and advocate curtailing personal freedoms in such a way? Does libertarian mean something else in Oklahoma?

Oh yes.  "Libertarianism" is a very compromised ideological label in America; if you replaced any instance of an American declaring themselves a "libertarian" with the words "laissez-faire capitalist" it would probably read as far, far more coherent.

[Barrister]

That said, I do expect you're joking here, since I can't imagine many circumstances where my very foundational beliefs would be turned into their opposites, and I'd become homophobic, misogynist, racist, and rabidly capitalist, those being the four impulses that drive modern rightism.

[Jacob]

And I think you'd go far in a leftist tea party.  I get more shit from you about not being the exact person you want me to be, with views exactly the same as yours, than I do from anybody.

That said, I do expect you're joking here, since I can't imagine many circumstances where my very foundational beliefs would be turned into their opposites, and I'd become homophobic, misogynist, racist, and rabidly capitalist, those being the four impulses that drive modern rightism.

That said, you may come around to capitalism if you find a way to do alright by it. I know I did.

[DGuller]

That said, I do expect you're joking here, since I can't imagine many circumstances where my very foundational beliefs would be turned into their opposites, and I'd become homophobic, misogynist, racist, and rabidly capitalist, those being the four impulses that drive modern rightism.

Yeah, that characterization is not helpful.

[Ideologue]

That said, I do expect you're joking here, since I can't imagine many circumstances where my very foundational beliefs would be turned into their opposites, and I'd become homophobic, misogynist, racist, and rabidly capitalist, those being the four impulses that drive modern rightism.

You're right, I forgot xenophobic.  Jake may already believe I'm xenophobic, though, which is not true.

I also left out religious, but that's because I don't see Christianity as a core value of, or even an influence on, modern rightism; in the U.S., it's predominately a signaling device for being white and shitty.  Still, I'd absolutely love Jake to walk me through the steps to where I become a Christian.  I'd like to know, since believing in God in some capacity probably would make me happier, though I don't seem especially constituted for such belief.

That said, you may come around to capitalism if you find a way to do alright by it. I know I did.

I don't begrudge slight differences in wealth (let's say, one order of magnitude).  I begrudge massive capitalist exploitation that leads to some people with their wealth expressed in negative numbers and others with worths of tens of billions, off the back of passive income streams forged by their fathers and grandfathers.

I do think you're a good role model overall.

[Iormlund]

I'm confused. How can someone be 'largely libertarian' and advocate curtailing personal freedoms in such a way? Does libertarian mean something else in Oklahoma?

You mostly agree with libertarian positions but make exceptions for egregious examples of sin?

That sounds as coherent as agreeing mostly with communism except you want the private sector to own the means of production.

[Admiral Yi]

Go Ide go!